Found object: 5:05pm, 9 January 2010

A decade on from the fabled year 1999, and the public transport in my town has yet to achieve anything close to this kind of splendour. Here in Melbourne the ‘El’ would be shorthand for “extremely late”.

My micro life: 12:44pm, 28 August 2008

Public transport, Culture jamming on (or, Metlink announcement from an alternate universe)

Spotted this on the 5.14pm Epping train.

ATTENTION PASSENGERSif you don’t arrive at your destination on time please inform our friendly station staff and we promise to refund you the cost of your journey if we dont (sic) deliver the service we promise why should you pay full fare? Thats (sic) why we’re introducing “FARE FAIR” a new system to help diminish our terrible double standards.

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